Young People And Old Literature

Photo Credit: Photo of Lawrence Olivier (as Heathcliff) and Merle Oberon (as Catherine) in the 1939 film version of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, from The Film Daily, January 12, 1940, published by Wid’s Film And Film Folk, Inc.: We hope/Wikimedia Commons/PD US not renewed I think sometimes we make too many assumptions about young people …

Adaptability

Photo Credit: The title page for the first edition of Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor (when she was writing under the male pseudonym of Currer Bell), published by Smith, Elder, 1857: INeverCry/ Wikimedia Commons/PD Old “Adaptation is a kaleidoscopic way of understanding human nature, and a novelistic technique for showing that character isn’t fixed.” (Nichols, par. …

The House On Belkind Street

A picture of the house on Belkind Street, taken a few years ago. I don’t usually post personal blog posts here, but since I am always exploring psychological reality in fiction and in life, I wanted to write this post about a house. It’s not a very fancy house, as you can see from the …

Camp NaNoWriMo 2016 Reflections

Photo Credit: Writer hard at work at his typewriter, uploaded 6 months ago: waldryano/ Pixabay/CC0 1.0 After being away for a month, it’s great to be back on my blog! I’ve been away because I decided to participate a yearly event called Camp NaNoWriMo. The event is hosted by the people who host November’s National …